Big Brother

The struggle to keep government from encroaching on our individual liberties never ends -- but it does change. Case in point: facial recognition technology, a rapidly growing field that has the potential to become a perfect tool of would-be tyrants:

The IRS has long had difficulty keeping your personal information safe from hackers. Hunderds of thousands of taxpayers were victimized in an IRS data breach back in 2015. Since then, the agency has been almost continually prodded to tighten up its security.